Scottish Graduate School of Social Science

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Training Calendar

Below is an illustrative calendar for SGSSS training events over the 2025/26 academic term – the training calendar for the 2026/27 academic year will be available soon.

Our training is open to all social science PhD students, as well as SGSSS-funded Research Masters students, unless otherwise noted in individual event descriptions. All training events can be registered for via SGSSS Portal.

Be sure to also check out the further training opportunities offered by ESRC and NRCM.

Please note these dates are subject to change and confirmation. Please check Portal and our Friday Digest for firm dates and registration processes.

MonthDateEventThemeLocationAudience
September22 SeptemberSocial Network Analysis MasterclassMethodsHeriot-Watt UniversityOpen registration
25 SeptemberPolicy Event – Understanding Society DataResearch in PracticeEdinburghOpen registration
October1 OctoberPolicy Event – Population Ageing and Social PolicyResearch in PracticeEdinburghOpen registration
6–10 OctoberCore Methods Module ResidentialPhD foundationsEdinburghBy invitation
9 OctoberPostdoctoral Fellows InductionInformationEdinburghBy invitation
21 OctoberSupervisor InductionInformationOnline / In personBy invitation
29 OctoberNVivo for BeginnersMethodsEdinburghOpen registration
November3–4 NovemberStudent InductionPhD foundationsTechnology and Innovation Centre, University of StrathclydeBy invitation: ESRC students starting PhD (Oct 2025)
6 NovemberCo-Create, Communicate, Collaborate: Public Engagement and Participatory Approaches for Impactful ResearchStudent-Led TrainingEdinburghOpen registration
7 NovemberStudent-Led Open Competition – Open Hour WebinarInformationOnlineDrop-in
11 NovemberNVivo – Going FurtherMethodsEdinburghOpen registration
13 NovemberPolicy Event – Mental Health and WellbeingResearch in PracticeEdinburghOpen registration
17 NovemberCrafting Your Research Story: Pitching and Storytelling Skills for PGR ImpactStudent-Led TrainingEdinburghOpen registration
19 NovemberDisrupting Method: Adventure and Creativity in the Postqualitative ParadigmStudent-Led TrainingGlasgowOpen registration
19 NovemberBayesian Statistics MasterclassMethodsEdinburghOpen registration
24 NovemberCrafting Your Research Story: Pitching and Storytelling Skills for PGR ImpactStudent-Led TrainingOnlineOpen registration
24 NovemberNVivo – Coding WorkshopMethodsEdinburghOpen registration
28 NovemberTheatre of the Oppressed techniques as research methods: possibilities and challengesStudent-Led TrainingEdinburghOpen registration
December5 DecemberNavigating Ethics in the Field – Research with ChildrenStudent-Led TrainingEdinburghOpen registration
9 DecemberIntroduction to Meta-Analyses with RStudent-Led TrainingOnlineOpen registration
15 DecemberIntro to Mixed MethodsMethodsOnlineOpen registration
16 DecemberWhat Next for Human Rights? Setting the Research AgendaAdvanced TrainingUniversity of GlasgowOpen registration
12 DecemberSocial Science in the Age of AI: A Critical GuideComputationalOnlineOpen registration
JanuaryTBCMentorship Launch EventInformationEdinburghBy invitation
19 and 26 JanuaryNarrative AnalysisMethodsEdinburghOpen registration
27 JanuaryAI and Literature ReviewsComputationalOnlineOpen registration
February24 FebruaryCollecting Digital Data: The Role of Web-scraping and APIsComputationalOnlineOpen registration
20 FebruaryGrounded theory: an introductionMethodsEdinburghOpen registration
March2 MarchThinking Longitudinally – Quantitative approachesMethodsStirlingOpen registration
24 MarchIntroduction to Research Data Management: Primary Data (UKDS)MethodsOnlineOpen registration
25 MarchThematic analysis Part 1MethodsEdinburghOpen registration
25 MarchScience Communication for Social ScientistsResearch in PracticeUniversity of AbertayOpen registration
27 MarchText Analysis for Social ScientistsComputationalOnlineOpen registration
April21 AprilIntroduction to Data Management: Secondary Data (UKDS)MethodsOnlineOpen registration
28 AprilMachine Learning for Social ScientistsComputationalOnlineOpen registration
29 AprilThematic analysis Part 2MethodsEdinburghOpen registration
29 AprilMedia EngagementResearch in PracticeUniversity of AbertayOpen registration
April–MayVarious (Apr–May)Spring into MethodsMethodsVariousOpen registration
May1 MayGenerative AI and The ResearcherComputationalOnlineOpen registration
13 MayCollaboration ShowcaseResearch in PracticeEdinburghBy invitation
29 MayWorking with panel survey dataMethodsEdinburghOpen registration
8 MayDoctoral-led SymposiumOtherDundeeOpen registration
June9-11 JuneSGSSS Summer SchoolResearch in Practice
Methods		Queen Margaret UniversityOpen registration
23 JuneBeyond the PhD ConferenceOtherGlasgow Caledonian UniversityParticularly for students completing in the next 12 months

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